Violot (Triassic of France)

Where: Champagne-Ardenne, France (47.8° N, 5.4° E: paleocoordinates 34.4° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Ledru in 1846–1858, 1860

Collection methods: salvage, surface (in situ),

• Collection in Langres museum

Primary reference: G. Corroy. 1934. Étude stratigraphique et tectonique des régions Nord du seuil de Bourgogne et du bassin des Eaux minérales vosgiennes [Stratigraphic and tectonic study of the northern regions of the threshold of Burgundy and the basin of the Vosges mineral waters ]. Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Marseille, IIe Série 7(1):1-80 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 140023: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 27.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Saurischia - Plateosauridae
Plateosaurus sp. Meyer 1837 plateosaurid
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